Leena Ukkonen

by | Apr 15, 2025

Leena Ukkonen
Fellows
2025
Prof. Dr.

Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology

[email protected]
https://research.tuni.fi/wise/
https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=jybEo-4AAAAJ&hl=es

Inaugurated for:

For her contributions on wireless wearable and implantable technology, especially wireless antenna technology

Short CV

Leena is a full professor and her scientific research is focused on wireless implantable biomedical sensors and wireless communication and power transfer in human body environment. She have an extensive, 20-year research background on antennas and wireless power transfer in harsh environments, novel electronics materials and manufacturing methods, implantable antennas, wearable, flexible and textile-based antennas, computational, electromagnetic modelling, and wireless implantable biomedical sensors including brain implantable wireless sensors and antennas also for wireless brain-machine interfaces. From these she has authored more than 350 peer reviewed papers.
In addition to her scientific career she has been holding many positions of trust including Chair of the Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, Research Council of Finland
(former Academy of Finland), 2022–2024 , oard Member, Nokia Foundation, 2023 onwards , Member of MATINE (Scientific Council for Finnish Defense Forces), 2019–2024, Member of the Joint Committee of the Natural Science Research Councils in Nordic Countries (NOS-N)
2022–2024 Member of the Research Council of Natural Sciences and Engineering, 2016-2018 and Chair of Particle and Radiation Detectors for Health, Safety and Security Research Program, Academy of Finland, 2016–2018 and 2022–2023
Currently she is also head of the unit TECH the faculty of medicine and health technology and Medicine at Tampere University.